[25986] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.11: /usr/bin/java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Aug 24 18:54:01 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:51:37 -0400
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It seems that the rational choices are to:
(1) Put java locker attachandrun scripts into /usr/athena/bin,
(2) Remove the libgcj RPM, or
(3) Install Sun's j2sdk and use alternatives to point at it
(I'm assuming (3) would mean adding crud to the athena-ws postinstall
scriptlet, unless I'm wrong and j2sdk uses the alternatives mechanism
itself.)
(2) would require uninstalling gcc-java, which seems like an unfortunate
loss of functionality, although perhaps it's functionality no one is
using. I don't see a compelling reason to do (3), especially since it
would increase space usage a lot. So I think I'd like to do (1), absent
arguments I haven't thought of yet.
